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I have written about perseverance on more than one occasion. Perseverance is a critical asset no matter what you do and what you aim for. It is a final and perhaps most important element of the DAP approach: Desire – Action – Perseverance (patience).

Not surpisingly, it is also one of taekwon-do tenets.

To begin with a training hall, perseverance is crucial to progress in taekwon-do and any other martial art. You must keep on training no matter what your rank is. The way of taekwon-do, and the martial arts way in general, is endless.

Extrapolating this to the outer world, perseverance is ultimately never giving up. Whether you are pursuing a goal of your own, building up a relationship, or working on a project, the only way to succeed is to treat END as:

Effort. Never. Dies

Perseverance is telling your heart,you’re going to finish the things that you start,
It’s refusing to quit when the going gets tough,
or starting to cry when the sparring gets rough.
It’s not giving up on the board you must break,
no matter how many tries it may take.

‘D’ stands for desire. One need to have a burning desire to make one’s dreams come true. As Paulo Coelho nicely put it in The Alchemist, “when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

‘A’stands for action. Dreams without continuous action are nothing but daydreaming. Only action brings true knowledge, and only action propels us forward.

‘P’ stands for patience or perseverance. Patience is the ultimate ingredient that makes the dish complete, fresh and tasty. Indomitable confidence combined with the previous two steps can create magic results.

The difference between possible and impossible is only in the amount of time invested.